Sunday, May 21, 2017

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wins re-election in victory for moderates

The Iranian President elections are over and President
Hassan Rouhani was reelected.Rouhani
beat his conservative counterpart Ebrahim Raisi.Rouhani won 57% of the vote while his rival
only received 38% of the vote so Rouhani won by a large gap.This shows that the citizens of Iran favor
globalization.The United States
Secretary of State Tillerson said that he hopes Rouhani will put an end to Iran’s
destabilization campaign in the region.Also Tillerson hopes that Iran’s missile tests will be stopped, and
hopes the reelected President will give rights of free speech to Iranian
citizens.About 40 million Iranian
voters voted on Friday and more than 70% of eligible voters voted in this
election.It was unlikely for Raisi to
win since no Iranian president who ran for reelection has ever lost.Rouhani addressed his people on Saturday
saying that he hopes Iran can live in peace with the rest of the world.Finally, the article talks about how Putin
and Assad were among the first to congratulate Rouhani on his reelection.Both of them saying that they have full
confidence that they their countries will cooperate with the reelected
president.